Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Elswyth Thane
Charting Nov 11, 1945 → Jan 23, 1949 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.13%
- week of Jan 23, 1949
- Career Power
- 18
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 14
- February 1948 – January 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 18
- February 1944 – January 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Dec 19, 1948
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 books · 18 share-weeks of Career Power
Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kissing Kin | #11 | 5 | 13.9 | ||
| Ever After | #15 | 1 | 2.1 | ||
| The Light Heart | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1948 in books →Elswyth Thane's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1948 to January 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Norman Mailer447
- 2Ross Lockridge294
- 3Elizabeth Goudge235
- 4F. Van Wyck Mason212
- 5A. J. Cronin203
- 6Frances Parkinson Keyes187
- 7Ben Ames Williams186
- 8Frank Yerby180
- 9Irwin Shaw169
- 10Betty Smith162
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.